Re: histc in Octave?

[Francesco Potorti`]

>However, hist (x, (e(1:len-1)+e(2:len))/2), gives different results, 
>because even though the hist documentation says that it takes the second 
>vector as the center points, but I the actual behaviour is that for the 
>first bin it counts values from -inf to e(1), so then it doesn't 
>actually count values around the center point.

Not only that.  If the bins are or unequal lenghts, the results will be
different in the middle too.

>The function didn't work, it gave me all zeros :)

I had made a trivial error.  I wrote this:
>>     freq(i,:) = sum (y <= x(i) && y < x(i+1));
but I should have written this:
>>     freq(i,:) = sum (x(i) <= y && y < x(i+1));

>I figured the solution though to serve my purpose:

Yes, this does the same thing, but without profiting from vector math.
For long vectors, it will be much slower.

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